For those of you confused at the title of my blog, let me esssplain. Baseball is America's most historic pastime. Terrorism in the Arab World seems to be theirs. Do I need to explain everything? : ) Baseball has Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson and many more iconic figures that are part of Americana. The Arab World has Osama Bin Laden, Sheik Abdul Rahman (the blind Arab dude with the Santa Claus hat), Mohammad Atah, Yasser Arafat, and Ahmad Yassin are the icons of the Arab World.

When there is nothing to do, you hate. We have baseball. We also have other things to do. We're too busy to hate for the most part. Plus, we outgrew our western Europe and Viking history. Thanks to the Greek and Roman cultures I must say. While the Greeks were inventing democracy, western Europe was never bathing. While the Greeks were thinking, western Europe was busy scratching their butts with axes. While the Greeks were building society, western Europe was barely saying "orf". I think orf meant "food". God bless them Greeks! They showed us the way. Our melting pot has made us advance swiftly. Adventurous people from all over the world came here, and so became our adventurous spirit. We like to have fun too. Baseball is fun. That's why it took off to such great heights. No sport has the iconic heroes like baseball does in America. These guys were real heroes to Americans. Joe DiMaggio was a hero to every Italian and Yankee fan. The Yankees have a slew of icons in their history. They are the Al Qaeda of American baseball teams. The big boys.

In the Arab World it seems they live to hate. From what I see on television, I don't buy the "it's not most Arabs" cliche. In the Palestinian areas of Israel there were celebrations in the streets when 9/11 happened. They were joyously celebrating while knowing thousands of people have just died. Arafat had his police threaten to kill members of the media who shot these celebrations on video. They didn't keep all of the cameramen from shooting, however. With that though, there were more than two-thirds of Arabs in a poll saying 9/11 was morally unjustifiable. One third is way too high still, but that's nothing like what we see. When they show Arabs on tv, they always show them with guns, swords, or burning things in effigy. There is a huge disconnect here from this poll and what I see on tv. Usually they show Arabs protesting over something either so small or totally inconsequential to their lives. "The Pope called us violent people?! It's time to kill someone!" Which they did. It seems most of them sees terrorism as their sport, and they play it well. The poll tells a completely different story.

I don't know if they work, come home, treat their wives respectfully, kiss their children, or anything we do and take for granted. I do know they wanted to kill a woman for allowing her students to call a teddy bear "Mohammad" though. I do know they have a fixation with beheading people. I know they love to treat women as poorly as possible too. How can these fathers look at their young daughters, knowing what's ahead of them, and not do everything in their power to see they are not lashed for being raped in the future? I don't know. One woman I know of in Iran was executed because she had sex with an older, unmarried man. Her name was Atefeh Rajabi and she was only sixteen years old. She claims she was sexually assaulted. They hung her in front of a crowd by a crane. While she fought for her life, with her last breaths she kept repeating "repentance". The law there states that when someone says "repentance" that they are given at least another appeal. People who are so hellbent on upholding Islamic Law broke the law. This was a young, beautiful woman who died after possibly being sexually assaulted by an older man. Sickening and intolerable.

I even see kids out there with AK-47's protesting with their fathers, wanting blood. They have no idea what they're doing. They are kids. Our kids here are playing video games, basketball, football, soccer, and yes, baseball. Theirs shout to kill people right along with their fathers. Chips off the old block. I guess soccer is big in the Arab World, but maybe it's only the moderates who are out there playing soccer. Maybe that's why their voices aren't heard. They know their idiotic neighbors are chanting for someone's death, but they'd rather play soccer. They'd rather have fun than rally against the haters. The ones who are out there protesting all of the time though have no heroes like DiMaggio, Ruth, Williams, Mays, Koufax, Ripken, Griffey, Jeter, Mantle, Robinson, or Aaron. They have no heroes. They have martyrs.

In Switzerland, they came up with a "plant's bill of rights". Let me repeat that. In Switzerland, they came up with a "plant's bill of rights". If you're reading that and thinking it's either a joke (which I've been known to make) or something besides a nightmarish scenario, then you're wrong. You see, attorneys representing dandelions are suing on their behalf. Evidently, dandelions are PO'd that children keep pulling them out of the ground and doing that "Mary had a baby and its head popped off" game. Okay, that's a joke. Seriously though, government officials there are angered that humans are doing to plants what they like. People eat them. People kill weeds. People mow grass. In Switzerland now, this may be unacceptable to them.

The panel that was commissioned unanimously (yes unanimously) said that to kill plants arbitrarily is morally wrong because just like human beings, they are alive. I've been wondering when we were going to come to this and now we have. This is another strike from the nutty left fringe to make human life expendable in order to save Mother Earth. First it was "meat is murder". Second it was "man is going to melt the Earth". Now it's "salad is murder". Next it will be "man must be rendered extinct for the good of our planet". Watch.

The Swiss, who took the high moral ground in WWII by being "neutral" but helped the Nazis rob the Jews, now think if you go to a salad bar that you are a rabid anti-plantite. An anti-plantite is someone who hates plants. Okay, I made that up but I think I just might submit that one to Merriam-Webster's site. Too late. I just did it. If you go to a salad bar and use ham or chicken chunks, you should be ashamed of yourself. You're murdering just about all of life on Earth. Murderer!

I know it says "arbitrarily killing", but who are the arbitrators? What will be the factors in their judgment? What conditions of eating plants will they find acceptable? Will these people accept you growing a garden and eating what you grow? I grow a garden every summer and eat from it. Damn good stuff. Could you imagine some government official saying "sir, the way you cut that pepper is cruel and inhumane. You're under arrest." Just think of it. If PETA had its way, that's exactly the kind of law they would have for those who eat meat. Meat is murder, afterall. PETP will say "salad is murder". PETP just isn't as catchy is it? Sounds like a burp. "PETP... oh excuse me."

I know people on the right are made fun of all of the time by celebrities and intellectuals, but this is as whacky as it gets. Of course intellectuals in the coming years will actually try to make you believe that what the Swiss did made sense and will hope the rest of the world adopts their insanity. Maybe they'll allow you to pull that tomato off the vine as long as you inject the tomato and the plant with some sort of anesthetic before you do. To pull the grapes off the vine without anesthetic is cruelty they just cannot sit idly by and take. Neither will they let you just pull a head of lettuce out of the ground without anything to numb its pain. Don't you hear it screaming in agony? Salad is murder!

In one word, genius. No one really has heard of Alaskan governor Sarah Palin before, so when rumors were flying it might be her I was wondering "who is this". I thought it was going to be Joseph Lieberman because Lieberman can hold Joe Biden, Obama's attack dog at bay. That would have upset many conservatives. With this pick McCain can still hold Biden at bay and not upset the conservative base. Already Obama's people are saying she's too inexperienced, even before she was introduced. Nobody is less experienced than Obama is, so for them to throw around the "I" word is ludicrous. No, not Obama's rapper friend. Ridiculous ludicrous I meant : ) 

Not only will Mrs. Palin keep Biden at bay, but any considerable attack towards her will be perceived by Hillary Clinton's disgruntled followers as another attack by Obama's people at women. He already has that problem facing him as everyone knows. This will also make those women who really are either refusing to support Obama or willing to look elsewhere to find the McCain candidacy more appealing. Finally the republicans get to play the victim card. Let's see how the liberals like it.

I still have my concerns over this pick but after hearing Palin speak I can see she has tenacity and a brain. A deadly political combo. She isn't going to be pushed around. Obama and Biden might try to accentuate her inexperience but she is the ONLY one running for anything that has executive experience. Biden doesn't. Obama definitely doesn't. Even McCain doesn't. This brings some executive experience to at least one ticket.

Palin brings attention to McCain, which he is sorely needing. Obama again at his speech last night missed an opportunity to get specific but said nothing new. All he spoke on was change, hope, shooting stars, and lucky charms. He won't speak about tangible, specific things because he doesn't have the ability to. With McCain suffering from Bush withdrawal symptoms this country is having and not having the media behind him is if he was their lord and saviour, and still somehow for two days was actually leading Obama in the polls during the Democratic National Convention this week. Amazing and telling. Now McCain gets his jumpstart towards the rest of the campaign season that he needed. Imagine Obama's attack dog attacking Sarah Palin at the debate. Imagine them going after her on stump speeches. We get to play the victim card for once. A page out of the old democrat playbook. Oh boy! Woops. I mean oh girl!

The recent invasion of sovereign, freedom-loving Georgia, a former Soviet republic, really shows that Russia will be what it always was. A power hungry and egomaniacal country. Russia's President might be Dmitry Medvedev, but he's just a puppet. It's Vladimir Putin who's running the show. That's the same Vladimir Putin who our President said he looked into the heart of and saw that he was a good man. He was WAAAAY off!

People are speculating why Russia took this audacious stance and many have speculated that it's about the oil pipeline that goes through Georgia into Turkey. That is a strategic point, but for that reason alone Putin wouldn't be going this far. Many are also speculating that it was about Georgia and other former Soviet republics possibly joining NATO. That's definitely part of it. That's not the whole story though. The real reason why Putin is doing this is to reacquire the former Soviet republics and get back to being the Soviet Union. With Putin, that was always his ambition. He said things our dumb President wanted to hear, all the while he's killing journalists and political dissidents including Alexander Litvinenko while he was in exile in England. Other people in England were contaminated by the radioactive substance (polonium-210) Litvinenko was given, as well as other critics of Putin. That didn't raise much of an eyebrow with the White House for some reason though.

Putin is very popular in Russia. His poll numbers reciprocate our President's poll numbers. Even though it's clear Putin is killing those with opposing voices, the Russian people love him because he's trying to restore their standing in the world. I'm quite sure poll numbers in Russia won't dip when it comes to Putin with the invasion of Georgia.

Georgia I'm afraid is just the first of other skirmishes as Moscow reestablishes it's might. The Ukraine and Baltic nations might be next. Who knows? Maybe even Poland might be on that list. All the while Putin is daring the US to do anything by giving the ultimatum "choose us or Georgia". Think you better look into Putin's eyes again, Mr. President. I'm quite confident that this is just the beginning. This could be Putin sending a message to other former republic nations to not join NATO, but I think this goes deeper than that. Russia could have sent that message and abided by the ceasefire they made easily. It was their own ceasefire proposal and without cause they broke it. As a matter of fact, it was never enacted. They never abided by it. It was just a ploy to make the world take more time in reacting to this while thinking it was over. It's obviously not over. As Russia gave the ceasefire, their tanks kept moving inside towards Georgia's city of Gori. This isn't a message at least to the other former Soviet republics. If anything, it's a message to the world. Mother Russia is reforming and there's nothing we can do about it unless NATO accepts Georgia into it immediately. With that though, that might mean full scale war with Russia. With Europe getting much of its energy from Russian pipelines, they will probably once again show their impotence. Germany might actually join Russia as screwed up as they are. This also shouts for us to become energy independent and drill off our own shores. Something that the dems won't even allow a vote on.

Politically speaking with our election, dem hopeful Barack Obama again showed his lack of strength by at first stating that both Russia AND Georgia should show some restraint. Georgia? What did Georgia do? Oy! McCain from the beginning said Russia should withdraw from Georgia immediately. Again Obama didn't take a clear stance. McCain again did. McCain went as far as to say Russia's presence in the G8 should be up for debate. The dems attacked McCain for taking such a strong stance against Russia saying it might just inflame tensions. Inflame tensions? They just invaded a sovereign nation and ally without just cause. McCain was right to take a strong stance as he has for years against Russia and specifically Putin. Just like when our President was seeing a good man in the eyes of Putin, John McCain saw something different. "I look into Putin's eyes and I see three letters, a K, a G, and a B." Well said, Mr. McCain. Watch out world. Here comes Mother Russia once again.

An Australian scientist who works for NASA said very recently that we shouldn't be concerned with global warming for the foreseeable future, but an ice age instead. Yep, he said "beware of an ice age". Reason? Because of lack of sunspot activity. If you've read my previous blogs on man causing global warming, you would see this is exactly what I've been telling you about. Scientists can't help themselves but be alarmists so they can get in the news. This scientist just wanted to be the first one on this future bandwagon that we're headed towards an ice age. Just like they said thirty years ago that we were in or about to enter an ice age because of the cooler weather we had during the 1960s-very early 1980s. The reason why we had that colder weather was because of a lack of sunspot activity.

In 1988 the UN proclaimed global warming first, which soon started the man causing the global warming, which even sooner began the "it's the fault of the United States" for the warming. For well over two decades now we've been pounded with this "man causing global warming" hysteria to say we're all going to die and it's all your fault. Because we're living in such a media age right now, it's really been brought to the forefront because of Al Gore and his lemmings. He even won a Nobel Peace Prize award for this while a woman named Irena Sendler wasn't found worthy to win the award. Irena Sendler saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during WWII by secretly giving the children to kind-hearted Germans so they wouldn't be exterminated. For this she was tortured when the Gestapo found out what she was doing. That wasn't good enough for the people at the Nobel Laureate. Al Gore won for spewing nonsense. Al Gore recently said that those who were saying man wasn't causing the warming were like those who said centuries ago that the Earth was flat. Well, watch these scientists jump on this NASA scientist's bandwagon very quickly.

Because scientists are saying the cool weather this winter and spring so far was due to a lack of sunspot activity also (just like the 60s and 70s), I put forth the question that couldn't any idiot deduce that the warming trend we had was due to an INCREASE of sunspot activity? I mean, this is about as easy as it gets. This scientist at NASA is jumping on my bandwagon (as if he read my writing.... most likely not). Funny thing though is that I said scientists would probably say not only are we going to have a cooling trend because of a decline in sunspot activity , but they'd be alarmists saying we're going to freeze again. I also joked that people like Al Gore and Bill Maher would go right along with them because this is the second time they were fooled by scientists' alarmist claims. They believed them when scientists said we were in or about to enter an ice age. They believed them when scientists said we were going to melt. Why wouldn't they believe them this time? I'm just waiting for the first scientist to make the claim that somehow what man is doing is causing the lack of sunspot activity. I can't wait for that one. I am dying just to see what they come up with and how they can tie that together. It's going to be elaborate and far-fetched, but Al Gore will take that as his new platform and insult those who disagree with him.

Well Al, it looks like the scientists are admitting that I was right. They're going to prove me further right when I said that they weren't just going to say we're headed towards cooler weather. They're going to say we're headed for an ice age, just like this scientist did. Damn, I am good. I'm sorry but I have to pat myself on the back. I'm just a high school educated and disabled person but I am being proven right by each day that passes as to why we were having warming and that we will have continued cooling. Come on, give it up to me. Who's the man?

Pope Benedict ended his six day visit to the United States yesterday. The Pope couldn't help but notice the energy from the crowds he drew and visibly fed off of them. I'm not a catholic for many reasons, but there's no denying Pope Benedict commands not only attention, but respect. During his visit, Pope Benedict talked extensively about prior church sex scandals dealing with pedaphilia and the coverups that happened before his tenure. That was during a much weaker Pope John Paul II's tenure. The pontiff held nothing back about the church's wrongdoings which I felt was truly admirable.

Pope Benedict has also drawn a line in the sand when it comes to this world's acceptance of Islamic terrorism, and had done so since he became pope. He spoke out against Muslims who resort to violence at the drop of a burqa at the beginning of his tenure and continues to make statements against terrorism. Just as Pope John Paul II took on communism, it seems this pope's mission is to take on Islamic terrorism. For that he should be commended.

That's not what Jackass Supreme Chancellor Bill Maher did though. He called the Pope a nazi because he was a nazi youth as a child. Bill Maher was forced to apologize, which most do not think he even did on Friday's show. Maher said he couldn't fault Benedict for being a nazi youth because he was so young. Problem is, that is what he did do the week before. Then he said his insult to the Pope was a distraction from his larger point that the Pope was basically the head of a pedaphilic daycare center. Another jackass statement from someone who thinks whatever he can come up with is a fact. All these things happened before the reign of Pope Benedict, and many of the sex abuse victims of the catholic church have praised Benedict's actions and dialogue over the matter. Maher doesn't see it that way because he doesn't feel the need to actually do research on anything. His supposed ginormous brain is good enough for him that he doesn't need to do research. Idiot.

While the Pope was drawing praise from most, Jimmy Carter was raising eyebrows because he decided to visit Hamas and break bread with them. Carter wasn't satisfied with those who weren't too sure he hated Israel so he wanted to make this final gesture on that behalf. He wanted to make sure even the delusional Obamamaniac-type of person will accept that he's indeed an Israel-hater. Carter pleaded with Hamas to stop with the rocket attacks and tried to get them to free Gilad Shalit, a member of the Israeli military kidnapped nearly two years ago by Hamas. Yeah, that will happen. Carter's presence would intimidate the Hulk into submission.

Because nothing was actually done during his visit, Carter tried to embellish the success by saying Hamas is open to accepting Israel as a neighbor in peace. Jimmy, you gotta be kidding me? Hamas was formed to annihilate Israel's existance. Because you visited them they're going to all of a sudden do a 180? Please! The fact is Carter only made things worse. Gee, that's a new one eh? Carter making something worse? Nah, never happened before. Jimmy Carter is like the character William Macy played in "The Cooler". All he needs to do is be around something and all of the sudden it goes to pot. If Carter stood next to Midas, Midas would turn everything into tin with his touch. What a loser.

So one man visits America and builds up the hopes of his people. The other visits terrorists who are now making jokes at his expense. "Oh, did you hear that I said I would give Israel my blessing? Oh damn that was a good one. He'll fall for anything!" I think I know who had the better visit.